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San Francisco Bay Area

▪ Provided AWS & Azure cost estimates (Design and deployment considerations for microservices) to customers coordinating with Engineering and Services Teams. ▪ Designed capacity plans tailored to customer requirements and compatible with various deployment architectures (private, hybrid, or public cloud) grounded in performance results.▪ Improved training processes for non-engineering teams, leading to a 99% on-time delivery rate of BOMs and better comprehension of engineering procedures by pre-sales and marketing teams.▪ Decreased issues by 50% by incorporating performance team feedback during the planning phase of BOMs and capacity planning in collaboration with the engineering team.▪ Accelerated the node mapping process by automating the process, reducing task time from 3-4 hours to under 1 hour to meet customer demands. ▪ Built cohesive teams with shared commitment to excellence, leveraging diverse skill sets to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions.

San Jose, California, United States

▪ Spearheaded the design and integration of the Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (CDIP), combining Hadoop, AI/ML, Kubernetes (Cloudera Private Cloud), and Object Stores into a cohesive architecture.▪ Led the development of CDIP's all-NVMe data lake reference architecture with Cloudera Data Platform, fostering a strategic partnership with Intel and Cloudera teams. Lead through the entire solution life cycle.▪ Crafted an advanced network design with an active-active 80G network for Hadoop, ensuring high scalability and throughput and incorporating LACP and Mode 6 deployments.▪ Authored in-depth white papers and achieved certifications on SAP HANA with Intel Cascade Lake and Skylake, covering both scale-out and scale-in configurations.▪ Designed and implemented a comprehensive VMware NSX network for a customer with over 1000 nodes, handling requirements gathering, sizing, and architecting the design.▪ Developed and deployed Cisco UCS Director workflows for the simultaneous installation of hundreds of servers via PXE, resulting in flawless deployment and earning customer accolades.▪ Proposed and executed the migration of data center infrastructure from Brocade to Cisco at both core and aggregation levels with limited Brocade engineering support.▪ Led the effort to integrate Cisco ACI with Cisco UCS Director in record time and in reintegration phase to meet customer needs.

San Francisco Bay Area

Leading multiple modules such as Virtualization, Compute and Networking in Cisco UCS Director, a Data center orchestration and automation software. Followed Agile methodology working with team to deliver results on time. - Co-ordinating with PM, TME and cross functional teams to gather requirements, deploy the lab topology, work with dev teams during design phase and guiding individual test teams.- Played an important role in winning $40M deals - Fednet and Woolsworth. - Received "Intensely focused on Customer" awards from Director, Manager and Product Manager- Provided timely escalations support ensuring customer success and avoided expensive Cisco Assurance Program (CAP) cases.- Went above and beyond my responsibility to analyze and break down requirements/User stories to a more realistic version by collaborating with PM/TME, Cross functional, Dev and Test teams. - Deployed complex customer environments such as Private Tenant Clouds involving ACI topology.- Deployed and managed labs for the all the modules independently in shortest time.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed $10M worth of lab infrastructure as well as QA for Compute, Network and Virtualization modules in Cisco UCS Director.- Played multiple roles to facilitate team: Release Manager, Lab Instructor for Solutions deployment, Test Engineer - Deployed multiple customer topologies including FlexPod as per CVD. - Received "Intensely focused on Customer" and "Win Together" awards from manager and peers. - Appreciated and awarded for my persistence in deploying pre-QA version of Cisco ACI.- Appreciated for collaborating with cross functional teams integrating VINCI with UCSD

Santa Clara, California, United States

Cloupia is acquired by CiscoCloupia CUIC provides unified Management and automation for converged infrastructures such as FlexPod, ExpressPod, VSPEX and Vblock. - QA for End-to-End Orchestration of Rack servers, Cisco UCS, Brocade and Cisco Nexus Switches.- Validated Orchestration workflows including SAN Zoning, Configuring N1K, Migrating VMs from vSwitch to DvSwitch, Managing private VLANs & port-profiles. - Deployed CUIC at Beta customer sites and provided training.

San Jose

- Tested end-to-end interoperability between legacy PBX and Unified Communications.- Wrote solution documents posted on cisco.com.- Individual contributor for the project Cisco Monitor Director (CMD), a network management software for SMBs. CMD manages Cisco and Non-Cisco devices using SNMP and WMI.

Product Management (In-Person)

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